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Worcester men charged with beating up woman in Chinatown

Boston Police report arresting on man on charges he threw a woman into a metal security gate around 2 a.m. and a second man on charges he punched the woman in the face - even as police were arresting the first guy.

Dylan Tran, 27, of Worcester, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (the metal gate) for the incident around 2:15 a.m. at Washington and Kneeland streets. Besnik Bytyqi, also of Worcester, was charged with assault and battery.

Your branding is known to be negative on bikes no matter what with other conservative stances--> thus you are viewed as having conservative ideology --> thus assigned all the qualities viewed in conservatives*** --> one of the assigned qualities is conservatives hates women --> thus your question is read as thinly veiled attack on the woman to assign blame.

***While I'm sure most is more nuanced than that, such qualities are assigned to conservatives commonly and that seems to be what happening here.

The jump from antibike has a leap. But it does have something to do as it is an important element of his reputation - basically fall in the "old crank guy" stereotype-caricature.

Perhaps this would be clearer: it is not so much being seen as antibike to the response of his comment. But he is seen as the type of guy whose comments would blame victims over perpetrators. And that reputation is built in a large part by being seen as hostile to bikes.

The language he used to ask the question can be read of a vague implicit expression that "she had it coming". But if it was said by a different person, I suspect the question would be given more a benefit of a doubt even as some posters would still raise eyebrows.

Note: I still try to operate and engage his arguments as arguments based trying to choose best policy for infrastructure - despite I have trouble recalling any example being positive of some infrastructure not tailored to a car - rather irrational advocacy for cars under a veneer for optimal policy. But I know most have ran out of patience long ago.

... with that name on this side of the Atlantic. My family's name WAS "Krpan" -- which got an "E" added at Ellis Island -- but some of my grandfather's cousins managed to make it through without getting e'd.

Vocalic rs and ls are pronounced as if they have an "u" (schwa) sound before them. Brkljacic is something like "Berkeljatchitch".

It indicates this likely isn't a financial transaction gone wrong, as happens in drug and personal services transactions. I've witnessed drunk people where a woman testing if her boyfriend will protect her, runs her mouth to provoke a response from other men to see how the boyfriend reacts. This boyfriend, apparently was slow to intervene.

Testing and/or judging whether a man will protect and support a woman and her (future) children is just a natural part of human mate selection and pair bonding required for survival of the species. There are lots of mate selection processes that play out in, around, and outside of bars. Like male competitions for dominance, protectiveness testing is one that can get physical.

... in biological justification. many men and women do just find finding and keeping appropriate mates without testing whether or not that mate can beat the shit out of somebody. you have absolutely no reason to believe that this victim was "protectiveness testing", and your hypothesizing is unkind at best.

Examples of women initiating fights are not hard to find. MTV's show Jersey Shore came to attention because "Snookie" got all up in some guy's face, violated his personal space, and he punched her. This was a learning experience for "Snookie" who didn't seem to repeat the mistake.

Another widely televised "news" incident recently was from Real Housewives of Atlanta where one woman got in the face of another with a bullhorn to produce a physical fight.

Would the police be called in and reports filed if wholly fictional? These events do not seem to be completely scripted and, in any case, did not appear to follow the script, only because of police involvement.